hexagonal vase mode planter

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<p>This planter (or flower pot, if you prefer) is designed to be printed in vase mode (that's "spiral outer contours" for you Cura folks). There are two variations: a smaller 4 inch planter (100mm) and a larger 5 inch planter (130mm). Both have included drainage holes, along with matching dishes to catch excess water that attaches right to the planter itself.</p><p>These can be printed with a standard 0.4mm nozzle and have quite good strength.</p><h3>For the planters</h3><p>These can be printed with a 0.4mm nozzle (though if you have a larger one, that is okay). The most important setting is to enable vase mode! This can be listed as "spiralize outer contours", "spiral vase", or something else in your slicer. If you are unsure what this is, please google "vase mode " and you will find exactly how to enable this.</p><p>Beyond that, here are the important settings you'll need to set:</p><ul><li>Layer Height: 0.3mm (<i>not required, but I like printing fast</i>)</li><li>Line Width: 0.8mm (<i>this is important, and yes, you can do that with a 0.4mm nozzle, just trust me</i>)</li><li>Bottom Layers: 4 (<i>this is 1.2mm total, and should be enough</i>)</li><li>Initial Layer Horizontal Expansion: -0.1mm (<i>this will help if you are prone to getting elephant's foot</i>)</li><li>Printing Temperature: +10 to +15 degrees your usual temperature (<i>I print Overture and PolyTerra at 200, but print these vases at 210 to 215 depending on my mood</i>)</li><li>Flow: 110% (<i>I don't know if this is required, but I set this for my vases so you should try it too</i>)</li><li>Wall Speed: 30mm/s (<i>you can play with this... slow it down if you have extruder issues</i>)</li></ul><p>For the 130mm version, some slicers like to add a random line that goes across the very top layer. You can surely cut it off after printing, but you can also rotate the planter 90 degrees around the Z axis and that gets rid of it. It's weird, but whatever. This planter should take around 4 hours with these settings.</p><p>For the 100mm version, you might have some issues at the bottom with skipped layers, so check the preview. This doesn't happen in all slicers, but if it happens for you, you can add a horizontal expansion of 0.1mm or 0.2mm to take care of that. This planter should print in 3 hours 15 minutes with these settings.</p><h3>For the dishes</h3><p>Well... you can do whatever you want for these really. These do not print in vase mode. Here were my settings anyway, and if nothing else, you can at least use these to print them a bit faster than usual:</p><ul><li>Layer Height: 0.3mm (<i>the tray walls go straight up, there's no detail to be had</i>)</li><li>Line Width: 0.66mm (<i>again, this works fine with a 0.4mm nozzle, just trust me</i>)</li><li>Infill Density: 10%</li><li>Printing Temperature: +5 degrees your usual settings (<i>I print Overture and PolyTerra at 200, but print these dishes at 205</i>)</li></ul><p>With these settings, the 130mm dish prints in 2 hours and the 100mm dish 1 hour 20 minutes.</p><h3>Notes</h3><p>The dishes should align with the holes in the planter using those little pegs. They should friction fit pretty well, but you should definitely use some super glue to really attach them on there. If they don't quite go in, you can use an xacto knife to widen the holes of the planter just a bit (we all get elephant's foot, it's okay).</p><p>While you can scale these up and down a little bit (note: when scaling down, you might have to give it a bit of horizontal expansion to get everything printing correctly), you probably cannot scale this up significantly without affecting the print quality and structure of the planter. If you must have these as larger planters, you may need to go up in nozzle size so that you can print thicker walls (for example, scaling up to 200% would probably require a line width of 1.4 to 1.6, so you'll want at least a 0.8mm nozzle or larger for that). You can try it if you want, but check the gcode preview carefully and print at your own risk.</p><p>These were all printed on a largely-unmodified Elegoo Neptune 2 with a 0.4mm nozzle using Polymaker PolyTerra and Overture matte filaments.</p><p>Category: Outdoor &amp; Garden</p>